20/04/2026
Ever heard this phrase? It is frequently used in arguments to determine that just because two things happen together doesn't mean one is the cause of the other.
For example, you will frequently find policemen at the site of a car accident, but it doesn't mean the police were the cause of the car accident - it means when car accidents happen police frequently appear.
This is important in well-being because beliefs are often based on correlation, not causation.
For example, the belief that people can't be trusted based on something unpleasant happening the same time you were enacting trust. This might show up hiding what is important to you for fear of experiencing criticism.
This could be born from the experience of being aged 8 and your sister says something mean when you share your first piece of art. You feel mortified and you vow to never share your talents again because you now assume it fear every time you do, someone will be mean.
The two things, someone being mean and sharing something important to you, can be completely unrelated, but because they happened at the same time your brain wired them in so that now when you experience either of those two experiences, the other experience is simultaneously remembered.
In this example, perhaps your sister was frequently mean, but this was the first time you shared something and you were extra vulnerable. This time you judged your sister's meanness more harshly than the previous times and felt like you didn't want to let it go because your sister should change her behaviour and be different. You decide to hold a grudge against her till she aologises or rights her perceived wrong.
However, all this does is keep us stuck in an unhelpful pattern. It's quite tricky to go through life not sharing things that are important to you or you are proud of, you literally have to tie yourself in knots to avoid it. This will come out in behaviours such as not wanting to give a presentation at work, hiding at home when we don't feel like we look our best, or being overly apologetic or critical of ourselves to let people know we are already aware that we are inadequate.
Through the process of a Mind Detox we can resolve correlative experiences and see the wood for the trees. By finding and resolving the root cause reason for our behaviours, we heal ourselves and allow a brighter future to emerge.
None of this changes, what happened to us, but it does change how we feel about it and helps us to take what we learn from it into our life experiences moving forwards.
I have used this technique to help people rewire their brains about money, relationships, careers, property, families, their body and countless other important parts of life.
A Mind Detox can be a quick 45 minute experience that is done once and is immediately effective. No long processing of what happened is required, nor is it necessary to repeatedly re-live the memory. What we are working with instead in your perception of what happened, and the beliefs that were formulated as a result. Once those beliefs and their corresponding emotions are identified, we can move on to challenging the validity of those beliefs and discovering useful antidote learnings.
And this is where it gets interesting. Not only does a Mind Detox help us heal from experiences that were a problem for us, it sets us up for future success by maintaining an open-minded and balanced perspective. This is the definition of resilience, which is not only the ability to bounce back from a difficult experience but to be able to cope with future difficult experiences.
It is a technique I have been practising for nearly 16 years now and still have a huge amount of respect for. I use it alongside teaching meditation and calming techniques, and integrate it into my Reiki healing where appropriate.
If you have any questions about the Mind Detox method or would like to know if your current challenges could be addressed through this approach, I would love to talk to you and share what may be possible.
